Miranda Garrison
Miranda Garrison (* 1950 ) is an American dancer , choreographer and actress .
Life
Garrison worked as an actress from the late 1970s. While filming the film Xanadu , she met the choreographer Kenny Ortega in 1980 , with whom she subsequently worked repeatedly.
She achieved greater fame through her participation in the cult film Dirty Dancing , in whose production she again assisted Ortega and also took on the role of Vivian Pressman in the film . She got the role after actress Lynn Lipton fell ill the first week of filming and was replaced by Kelly Bishop , who was originally slated for the role of Vivian Pressman .
In 2004 she appeared in the sequel Dirty Dancing 2 in a different role. She served as a jury member for the British television program Dirty Dancing: The Time of Your Life in 2007.
In addition, she acted as a choreographer for numerous film and television productions in the 1990s and early 2000s and appeared sporadically as an actress.
Filmography (selection)
- choreography
- 1987: Dirty Dancing
- 1988: Sunset (Sunset)
- 1988: Salsa
- 1988: Vibes - The psychic hunt for the glowing pyramid (Vibes)
- 1989: A Heavenly Lover (Chances Are)
- 1989: Alone with Uncle Buck (Uncle Buck)
- 1989: Hey-la, Hey-la, the Bouffants are here ( My Boyfriend's Back , TV movie)
- 1990: Lambada - The Forbidden Dance
- 1991: Life Stinks (Life Stinks)
- 1991: Rocketeer (The Rocketeer)
- 1991: The Naked Gun 2½ (The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear)
- 1992: Say it openly, Shirlee (Straight Talk)
- 1992: A River Runs Through It (A River Runs Through It)
- 1993: The Group ( Barbarians at the Gate , TV movie)
- 1993: You don't kiss blondes (Born Yesterday)
- 1993: Son-in -law Junior (Son in Law)
- 1994: The Naked Gun 33⅓ (The Final Insult)
- 1994: When a Man Loves a Woman - An almost perfect love (When a Man Loves a Woman)
- 1995: Manhattan Merengue!
- 1996: According to its own rules (Mulholland Falls)
- 1996: Four love you (Multiplicity)
- 1996: Evita
- 1997: Selena - An American Dream (Selena)
- 1997: Macarena (Looking for Lola)
- 1998: A suit for every occasion (The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit)
- 1998: The sports cannons (BASEketball)
- 1998: Winchell (TV movie)
- 1999: And the Beat Goes on - Die Sonny-und-Cher-Story ( And the Beat Goes On: The Sonny and Cher Story , TV movie)
- 1999: Go
- 1999: Elmo im Grummelland (The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland)
- 1999: Come On, Get Happy: Die Partridge Familie ( Come On, Get Happy: The Partridge Family Story , TV movie)
- 2001: Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows (miniseries, 2 episodes)
- 2001: 2nd Annual Latin Grammy Awards (TV broadcast)
- 2002: Pumpkin
- 2004: First Daughter - Date with Obstacles (First Daughter)
- 2005: The Skeleton Key (The Skeleton Key)
- 2006: Poseidon
- 2008: Moe
- play
- 1977: Breaker! Breaker! - Full of action (Breaker! Breaker!)
- 1980: Xanadu
- 1981: One from the Heart (One from the Heart)
- 1987: Dirty Dancing
- 1988: Sunset (Sunset)
- 1988: Salsa
- 1989: Mack the Knife
- 1990: Lambada - The Forbidden Dance
- 1992: The Last Comedian - Mr. Saturday Night (Mr. Saturday Night)
- 1997: Macarena (Looking for Lola)
- 1998: A suit for every occasion (The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit)
- 2000: The Bradys ( Growing Up Brady , Movie made for TV)
- 2004: Dirty Dancing 2 (Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights)
Web links
- Miranda Garrison in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Miranda Garrison talks Dirty Dancing . In: femalefirst.co.uk, accessed October 5, 2017
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Garrison, Miranda |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American dancer, choreographer and actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1950 |